The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-06-25
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GEN. RosECRANs is an ardent
Knight OF Labor.
Ed. PERKINS is rollicking around on
the Pacific coast.
MRS. ANDREW CARNEGIE is said 20 be
the happlest woman IN the British
Isles.
THE Rev. DR.. Bartol, OF Boston,
wants to raise Il fund to build Walt
Whitman summer cottage.
MARY ANDERSON has purchased
piece OF property in Manchester by
thecaa for which she paid $40, 900.
BELLE BOYD, the famous Confeder-
ate spy, IS running an orange grove
and IL in comfortable circumstances.
Mr.. SANKEY'S Arab adjutant's real
name is Hamedben- Hamed. He is
called Tippoo Tip because of the
twitching OF the eyelids to which he Is
subject.
GEORGE WEAVER, of Astoria, H.,
struck an ola fox with bullet so hard
that it dropped the rabbit it was car
rying and both loped out OF sight be-
fore George could ieload again
PROF. WILLIAM II. WooLERY, who
has been elected president of Hiram
College, is a kentuckian, 30 years
old, and has been engaged as a teach
err in New York, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
THE French Geographical Society is
preparing TO celebrate soIemnly the
centenary OF the death OF La Perouse.
The date OF his death has never been de-
termined, but 1t probably occurred in
1887 or 1888.
THE miners of Swansea, Wales,
address engraved on a silver-set lump
OF coal. punch" once prophesied
that coal would one day become so
scarce 10 to be ranked among precious
stones.
PRINCETON College has received from
the family OF the late Francis Biddle,
OF Philadelphia princeton rs q
memorial git of money which will
furnish among other things an annual
prize of 500 Tor the best English essay
by sophomore.
NJ. CHEyREUL recently went to vote
at q municipal election, and being
congratulated on his public spirit
said: "Yes, | am voting early. l
shall soon be a year old" He was
approaching his 1O1st birthday in
splendid health and spirits
SIR JOHN MACDONALD, premier Of
Canada, Is exceedingly annoyed at
the statement which has been ire
quently printed in newspapers that
ne began life as q bOotJlack. He SAYS
that while his people were not rich,
his youth had the surroundings OF g.
refined home, and that his family Is
OF ancient Scotch descent.
SENATOR STEWART, OF Nevada, says
that instead OF cutting off the rail
road passes Of senators and repre-
sentatIves, as has been done by the
Interstate commerce law, he would
give them all passes, and compel each
man to travel at least 5000 miles a
year, In order TO have them learn
something about all parts of the
country for which they have to legls-
late.
Mrs. FRANCES HODGsON BURNETT
says: "There is nothing more pain
jul to contemplate than the picture
of oneself in a book or newspaper. If
one is a beauty one'sreputation is in
stantly destroyed, and if one cannot al
ford to have any percentage taken OFF
ones own looks the consequences are
that ones secret hopes are blasted,
and ones most timid and modest
confidence III oneself forever a
ruin"
ANNOUNCEMENT has been made OF
the death OF Mrs. Julia Handy Brady,
wife OF the famous Washington pho
tograpner, NJ. B. Brady. She was the
daughter OF Col. Samuel Handy, OF
Somerset County, Md, the grand
niece OF Commondore Levin Handy,
OF revolutionary fame, and connect
ed by immediate kinship with the
Tilghmans, Winders and Colds
borOughs OF the Eastern shore of Vir-
ginla. For many months past Mrs.
Brady had been an invalid.
Two young English ladies living at
Dresden recently went to Berlin on
visit, and, wishing to make the most
OF their time, wrote to the chancellor,
expressing their fervent wish to see
him; whereupon they received an in
VItation to his palace, where they
were most kindly received. A servant
took them through the palace, and
showed them everything OF interest,
with which they were, of course, great
ly delighted, their Joy eliminating
when Prince Bismarck himself APP
peared ana addressed them most
kindly i'll fluent English, walking with
them for some time in the garden be-
fore bidding them farewell.
SOME valuable relics of Franz List,
bequeathed by him to the City of
Vienna, has lately been turned over to
that municipality. Among them are
writing case once the property of
Hayden, and the ClavIchOrd used by
Mozart at home. This spinet OF Mo
zart's resembles an insignificant look
ing table about two ellis in length,
with 3 black framework, without ped
ais and comprising five octaves.
The chords are mostly broken.
Gummed on to the lid is the an
nouncement of the death of Mozart's
widow. Mozart's piano will be pre-
served in the Municipal Museum by
the side OF Fran Schubert's piano,
which has long been in the possession
of the City OF Vienna.
Though Shaken Like Leaf
BY the most trivial causes, weak nerves are
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